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Until I Love Myself, Vol. 2 by Poppy Pesuyama

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Until I Love Myself, Vol. 2

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Poppy Pesuyama

VIZ Media LLC · Ebook · September 19, 2023

Reading lane: Graphic Biography & Memoir

Until I Love Myself, Vol.

At a Glance

Why This Clicks

Blunt, Unfinished Truths

A candid manga memoir faces gender dysphoria, workplace harassment, and the limits of an apology.

Come here for

  • A nonbinary artist’s frank account of harm and its aftermath
  • Memoir that meets hard truths without promising easy closure

Expect

  • A personal, emotionally direct manga memoir
  • Therapy and self-love enter the next step of the journey

Book Details

Authors
Poppy Pesuyama
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Published
September 19, 2023
Format
Ebook
Theme
Graphic Biography & Memoir · Romance Comics
Reading lane
Graphic Biography & Memoir

Affinity

Publisher Categories

  • General Manga

  • Comics & Graphic Novels / NonFiction

  • Comics & Graphic Novels / Gay & Lesbian

About This Book

A bravely blunt autobiography about confronting the tangled traumas of gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment. Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose “neither” for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends. When they...

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A bravely blunt autobiography about confronting the tangled traumas of gender dysphoria and workplace sexual harassment. Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose “neither” for gender and thrilled about their new job working as an assistant for mangaka X! But then he sexually harasses them, treating them first like a girl and then like something less than human. It only lasts a few months, but in some ways it never ends. When they finally feel able to confront him about it, they get an apology but not really the closure they were looking for. It turns out his reason for upending Pesuyama’s life was simple. He just could . Knowing that ugly truth really doesn’t help Pesuyama at all, and so now they begin a new step in their journey as a nonbinary manga artist—therapy! What will Pesuyama discover about gender, society, and loving yourself in this final volume?

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